Features
Friday, July 22 2011
Phish Rocks the House at Super Ball IX
The Vermont quartet delivered a monumental series of performance that conjured a Scott Pilgrim vs the World status – “an epic of epic epicness”. There seems to be only one band that has the dedicated fan base to stage its own mega-festival with no supporting acts.
Friday, July 31 2009
Roswell UFO Festival: 3 July 2009 - Roswell, NM
The biggest question on the minds of most attendees was not whether there is a cover-up, but when it will end.
Friday, August 8 2008
High Sierra Music Festival 2008
Despite the forest fires that plagued Northern California, the festival went off without a hitch, providing its own smoking performances and hot jams along with inventive instrumental interplay and socially conscious songs.
Wednesday, January 24 2007
One More Drifter in the Snow: An Interview with Aimee Mann
The songwriter looks at the ghost of Christmas past while moving forward.
Monday, November 6 2006
College Football: The Most Important Sport in America. Period.
Bigger than the NFL, more intense than the NBA, more meaningful than pro baseball, NCAA football is the best game in the country.
Reviews
Friday, September 2 2011
The 2011 Outside Lands Music Festival: San Francisco
With a wide variety of music coming from five different stages in one of the nation's most beautiful locations, the only problem was trying to catch as many bands as possible.
Thursday, August 11 2011
Other Lives + The Rosebuds: 24 June 2011 - Austin, TX
Other Lives has recently played KCRW's “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show in Los Angeles, which is most fitting as the band may well epitomize the concept of the show.
Thursday, July 21 2011
Widespread Panic: 15 June 2011 - The Moody Theater at ACL Live - Austin
Twenty-five years and counting, and Widespread Panic are still mixing in great curve balls with their smoking heaters.
Tuesday, July 19 2011
Jefferson Starship & The Contemporary Youth Orchestra: 5 June 2011 - Cleveland
Some rockers might think it an odd combo, but once the show begins it becomes immediately apparent that something special is taking place.
Monday, June 13 2011
Here We Go Magic: 25 May 2011 - The Parish, Austin
There are few bands in the indie-rock scene that are capable of taking the studio template of their songs and growing them onstage into unique versions that take the listener on more of a journey.